Suspect In Abduction Arrested

NEWPORT NEWS — A Newport News man who police believe robbed a woman, bound her hands and then forced a friend of hers into a car at gunpoint was arrested Thursday morning at the Hampton Courthouse.

Officers charged Jamar Hodges, 19, of the first block of Wyn Drive, with two counts of robbery, two counts of abduction, one count of burglary and four counts of a use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. He is in jail without bond.

He was arrested by Hampton police on outstanding warrants and turned over to Newport News officers. He had been in the courthouse to appear on an unrelated charge, according to Officer Pete Edgette, Newport News police spokesman.

Hodges and two other men are suspected of approaching the woman and a man at gunpoint as they were about to enter an apartment in the 700 block of Bellows Way at 6:35 p.m. Sept. 8, Edgette said.

The men forced the two into the apartment and tied the woman up with an electrical cord. After robbing them of cash, jewelry and camera equipment, they made the man leave with them in their car, Edgette said. They drove him to Hampton, where he was able to escape and call police.

Edgette said the man and woman knew one of the men, Edgette said.

Police have taken out warrants against two other men: LaShawn Barlow, 20, of the 2700 block of Wickham Drive, and Sam Q. Wallace, also known as ``Gogaine,'' 19, of the 600 block of 28th Street. They face the same charges filed against Hodges. None of the stolen goods has been recovered.